Shitty ass book.
>Just run hierarchical hidden markov models on the worlds biggest computer bro it will work bro trus me bro singularity 2023

>>105803423 (OP)
its at my local public library, will check it out
>shitty ass
there's always signal in noise

>>105804794
This is why we need better AI
To extract those 6 pages of signal from 300 pages of noise+signal
Time is expensive and i can not get it bacl, i cant spend 6 hours to read all this.

>>105803423 (OP)
that guy has been wrong about everything he has predicted but is constantly shilled in the media

>>105804812
right, you need to spend 6 hours on 4chan

Watching Sword Art Online is unironically the best way to understand AI and it's modern applications.
In the anime there's a theory for two types of AI, top down and bottom up. The former is what we have, it's like an advanced NPC, but it's still just an algorithm that processes existing data. It can't create anything new, it just generates associated data to give the illusion of something conscious.
Bottom up is a different story. A bottom up AI would be something that has access to all the data in the world but it learns, adapts and grows on it's own. That's also what would make "AGI" possible as if it can grow on it's own, then it's possible to grow outside of our existing understanding of the world.
But honestly it just seems like tech CEOs are manchildren that want to make a cyberpunk dystopia real for some fucking reason. It's so fake and gay.